Category: Pedagogy

  • Review: The New College Classroom

    This volume by Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis situates itself as a guidebook to rethinking and restructuring traditional teaching, and subsequently learning, practices for a modern, diverse, and equitable college classroom. The authors set out to provide practical answers to an essential question—namely, how can we “teach for every student—not only for the ones who most resemble us, their instructors” (xii).

  • Chapter 9 Review: Research That Inspires Creativity

    Research as a creative, knowledge-seeking pursuit In Chapter 9 titled “Research that inspires creativity”, authors Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis present their exhaustive, well-researched ideas, thoughts and recommendations on research design and methodology, with utmost, astounding clarity.  This chapter is primarily intended for research supervisors and instructors who are to assign, evaluate and oversee […]

  • EVENT: Digital Fridays w/ Paulina Hernández-Trejo, Urmi Parekh & Joshua Goldstein (Apr 28, 2023)

    THIS Friday, join us for presentations featuring HASTAC Scholars Paulina Hernández-Trejo, Urmi Parekh and Joshua Goodstein

  • 2023 The Future of Writing:A Symposium for Teachers

    Pedagogy, Process, Potential University of Southern California(online and in person)May 1, 2023 The Writing Program at the University of Southern California and the Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism invite proposals for The Future of Writing: A Symposium for Teachers, a one-day event in which we look down the road to what is coming next.   […]

  • The Power of Um

    The Power of Um

    Flower Plaster Casting Lesson Glitched by Mrs. Gilly circa 2022 Um, yes, um. Reflections and introjections are on my mind today. It is Tuesday. It is so wonderfully weird when a lot of really cool things happen at once. I was fortunate to interview an amazing photographer and it will be published in an online […]

  • Hybrid of a Hybrid: Chimera Teaching?

    Hybrid of a Hybrid: Chimera Teaching?

    The Chimera on a red-figure Apulian plate, c. 350–340 BC, remixed by Mrs. Gilly circa 2022 What is a hybrid of a hybrid? Could it be a chimera with two totally different DNA sets? Spiral me that, and spin a quadruple helix. Okay, I must preface this. I am on the tail end of a migraine. Hence, […]

  • Throw Out Your Lesson Plans

    Throw Out Your Lesson Plans

    Sometimes, you just need to throw out your lesson plans. You need to meet the moment of where you and your students are. This morning is one such morning. In my art classes, we are learning about self-portraits. I am big on themes across each class. As such, for our photography class we are doing […]

  • Join Us for An Event Celebrating the Release of the New College Classroom!

    Join Us for An Event Celebrating the Release of the New College Classroom!

    Join the Futures Initiative for our first hybrid event of the fall semester at the CUNY Graduate Center or via Zoom. Follow this link to the Eventbrite.  About this event “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.” —Audre Lorde Join the Futures Initiative for our first event of the […]

  • Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Prof Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of Design Justice (2020)

    Collaborative Book Review: Interview with Prof Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of Design Justice (2020)

    R. Baker (interviewer & editor) Galen Bunting (interviewer) Nanditha Krishna (editor) On Jun 12, 2022, HASTAC scholars R. Baker and Galen Bunting met over Zoom with Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, to discuss their book Design Justice (2020) . This interview has been edited for length and clarity (under the guidance of Prof. Costanza-Chock) by HASTAC scholars Nanditha Krishna and R Baker  […]

  • Mapping Asian American Narratives: Conception and Collaboration in D.H. Classes

    Mapping Asian American Narratives: Conception and Collaboration in D.H. Classes

    Since the academic year is coming to an end, I want to take the time to reflect on the conception and collaboration that gets into the creation of classes in D.H. pedagogy. I think that in this case, it’s important to know how the sausage gets made to demystify the complexity surrounding D.H. classes and […]